Dear All,
Let me take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy Christmas and a Very Good New Year! And also to thank you, the community and developers for all the activity and support to the project this year.
Currently GeoNetwork opensource is at the heart of an amazing number of National and International geoportals & registries. In Europe alone GeoNetwork provides INSPIRE catalog services for countries like Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Germany, The Netherlands, UK, Scotland, France, Spain, Swiss, Austria and Spain. There are more and more joining all the time. We have good collaboration networks set up to ensure effective cost and knowledge sharing. Also from countries like Australia, New Zealand and Canada the project receives substantial support, as well as from agencies like the United Nations, EEA (European Environment Agency) and ISRIC to name a few.
All in all I'm proud to state that we are going incredibly strong and are well on our way to reach the goal of making GeoNetwork the absolute best Geospatial Catalog in the world (if it isn't already)!!!
So I invite you all to keep in sharing knowledge and code to the project and enable the world to share it's geospatial resources as Open Data services as effective as possible.
This email is also to inform you that we will start 2012 with extra energy, and have a mini codes print on GeoNetwork development in The Netherlands from 16-20 January 2012 at the GeoCat office.
The sprint will be sponsored by SwissTopo, EEA and GeoCat. One of the main goals of the sprint is to finish the work on the upcoming GeoNetwork v2.8 so we can release the first Release Candidate.
Participants are François Prunayre, Jesse Eichar, Jose Garcia, Heikki Doeleman, Paul van Genuchten, Hue Dang and myself. Obviously you are welcome to collaborate during the week. If you want to join us in real life, please contact me so we can discuss and make arrangements.
An list of things we will try to cover during the week is put up here:
http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/mini-codesprint/201201-nl
Feel free to add important issues related to the v2.8 release here.
So once more, thanks to our sponsors and clients that allow the fast development of GeoNetwork. Happy New Year, cheers,
Jeroen
Chair PSC GeoNetwork
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GeoCat introduces Bridge©
An extension to ArcGIS© to instantly publish data and metadata on GeoServer and GeoNetwork.
See http://geocat.net for more details.
Jeroen Ticheler
GeoCat bv
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6721 WD Bennekom
The Netherlands
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